Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Artificial total ankle joint replacement has carried out progressively at home and abroad, it does not give satisfactory medium-long term effect. The design and development of ankle joint prosthesis and optimization of efficacy evaluation system are closely related to medium-long term effect.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the advance of design and development of artificial ankle joint prosthesis, and the advance of efficacy evaluation system in ankle joint replacement.
METHODS: A computer online search was performed to find papers concerning review and research report of type of artificial ankle joint prosthesis and efficacy evaluation system published between 1980 and 2010 in databases of CNKI, Wanfang, VIP and PubMed. We retrieved the papers using the keywords of “ankle joint, replacement, prosthesis, evaluation system” in Chinese and English. The literature published in a short report on the latest or authoritative journals in a certain domain was selected. The advance in the style of ankle joint prosthesis, evaluation system, indication and contraindication was analyzed.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A total of 33 literatures were included in this study. Artificial ankle joint replacement is the exploring project in treating ankle pain, the medium-long term effect of ankle joint replacement depends on design of the ankle joint prosthesis and optimization of efficacy evaluation system, and we think ankle joint prosthesis should be improved and enhanced greatly, to get better effect and higher postoperative survival rate of prosthesis in the replacement of ankle joint, and the more reasonable and standard efficacy evaluation system are also needed.